playmobil and RSS woes.
- At February 7, 2007
- By ken
- In tech
Not much for you today. Meg sent me this, some lesser-know Playmobil characters. Back when we were dating, Meg and I used to pick up and collect some of these Playmobil characters. I think I still have the Santa Claus character.
If you’re a techie… a Mac techie… and you use Quicksilver, here’s a neat use of it sent to me via Jared.
I do have a technical question that I could use the collective brains of all of you to solve. I’m currently helping Gary Lamb join the ranks of Word Press bloggers. I’ve stumbled upon a technical glitch that has me stumped. Here’s the scenario: His site is set up at godaddy.com. We have him on his own hosting account, with his name attached. I have Word Press up and running. Word Press works and (nearly) all functions are clocking along. With one small symptom…
The RSS feed is screwed up.
It’s weird. You can go to the reader of your choice (I like bloglines) and subscribe to his site. It will accept the feed. You can manually view all of the posts, say, withing the last 48 hours and they’ll show up. But by default all posts are marked “read.” No new updates come in to your reader. If you manually check it days later, it will show you the posts that are out there. But new updates are not automatically picked up.
It’s as if all posts are published with an “already read” status.
I went so far as to set up a second blog at garylamb.org/blog to see if it’s something in my setup, that blog exhibits the same symptoms. Also broken. I built the Ridge Stone Backstage blog a year or so ago and it works fine. So I installed a third version of Word Press under it at www.ridgestonebackstage.com/gary and it, too shows the same issues.
I’ve tested WordPress version 2.0.2, 2.0.5, 2.0.7 and WordPress 2.1. Both exhibit the same problem.
Other things I’ve attempted:
- replacing the wp_RSS2.php files from a working site (namely, mine)
- testing different versions of wordpress
- multiple installations of the blog both on the same hosting account and different hosting account
- disabled all plugins
- disabled all but default themes
- initially tried feedburner, but have disabled it, too
- scoured through the wordpress.org/support forums… nothing
- left a post at the forums… nothing
My only thoughts now are to attempt to find some very old installations of Word Press. Does anyone have suggestions… please!!!
Justin
I’m having the exact same problem. It’s actually the only thing thats keeping me from launching my new site. I too am using godaddy – linux os setup. I use Thunderbird as my news reader, but when I try to add the subscription from my blog it starts to validate and then times out. Yet the address works fine within bloglines, with the exception of entries being “read.” It seems to me that the problem is something within the rss2.php file, but I’m no expert computer programmer. Please let me know if you figure anything out. Thanks
ken
Justin,
There are also some RSS. php files in the wp-includes folder. Strangely, there are two of them in my AV Club site (RSS.php and RSS_functions.php), but only one in Gary’s new install. Hmm….
Justin
Hmm… this is getting more confusing because mine has the two files as well. (I’m using WP 2.1) One thing that I have noticed: when browsing your site in firefox, clicking on the rss icon in the address bar gives me the options of subscribing to rss2.0, rss.92, and atom… mine only gives rss2.0
When i looked at the page source for your site i realized that i was missing the header.php lines:
Justin
lol… oops.. sorry for the double post, i guess it thought i was writing html for my comment anyway… i’ll just email you the lines.